Wed. June 18th 2025 Daily Gosho plus Thurs. June 19th Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Encouragement, both using the latest official translations, all quotes are either from Nichiren Daishonin or Ikeda Sensei unless otherwise stated...

Wednesday, June 18th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"The people of today all turn their backs upon what is right; to a person, they give their allegiance to evil. This is the reason that the benevolent deities have abandoned the nation and departed together, that sages leave and do not return. And in their stead devils and demons come, and disasters and calamities occur. I cannot keep silent on this matter. I cannot suppress my fears."

(On Establishing the Correct Teaching 

for the Peace of the Land 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 7)
Selection Source: Suntetsu, 

Seikyo Newspaper, June 18th, 2025

Thursday, June 19th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

"...the Daishonin underscores the importance of '[summoning] up one's faith … with the profound insight that now is the last moment of one's life' (WND-1, 216). We must make each moment of our lives shine its brightest with the awareness that 'now is the last moment.' We achieve this, the Daishonin says, when we 'chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo' (OTT, 127).

"By doing so, we lead a life in which we 'realise the originally inherent nature of birth and death, and the originally inherent nature of ebb and flow' (OTT, 127). The Daishonin teaches us to deepen our understanding of the originally inherent nature of birth and death, imbue every aspect of our lives with the world of Buddhahood, and live with a vibrant, persevering spirit to the end."

Buddhism of the Sun, October 2023 issue of Daibyakurenge, 12th of a multipart lecture on key passages from The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, "Life Span of the Thus Comes One" chapter of the Lotus Sutra,Living Each Moment of Life to the Fullest, SGI Newsletter No. 11566, released June 13th 2024 

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
MINA SHO NI SOMUKI HITO KOTOGOTOKU AKU NI KISU YUENI ZENJIN WA KUNI O SUTETE AISARI SHONIN WA TOKORO O JISHITE KAERI TAMAWAZU KOKO O MOTTE MA KITARI KI KITARI SAI OKORI NAN OKORU IWAZUNBA ARU BEKARAZU OSOREZUNBA ARU BEKARAZU

New Gosho Zenshu page 25
Gosho Zenshu page 17

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

on Seikyo Shinbun's web-site
https://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/

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